Effectiveness of using ultrasonically activated scalpel in combination with radiofrequency dissecting sealer or irrigation bipolar for hepatic resection

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 59, Issue 115, 2012, Pages 831-835

  Yokoo, Hideki ^a   Kamiyama, Toshiya ^a   Nakanishi, Kazuaki ^a   Tahara, Munenori ^a   Fukumori, Daisuke ^a   Kamachi, Hirofumi ^a   Matsushita, Michiaki ^a   Todo, Satoru ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bipolar cautery with a saline irrigation system; Harmonic scalpel; Hepatic resection; Tissue link dissecting sealer

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; CAUTERIZATION; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEVICES; FEMALE; HARMONIC SCALPEL; HUMAN; LAVAGE; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER HYDATID CYST; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER SURGERY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; ORGAN DONOR; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; SCALPEL; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASOUND;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; CATHETER ABLATION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; INFANT; JAPAN; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; THERAPEUTIC IRRIGATION; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860513155     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5754/hge10337     Document Type: Article

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